Opinion: Noonan: We’re Losing Iraq

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... I ... I ... the nice sun in U S troops back into combat in a locker but I have asked my ... national security team to prepare ... a range of other options ... that could help support ... Iraq ... security forces and I'll be reviewing those options ... in the days ahead ... of the United States will do our part ... but understand that ultimately it's up to the Iraqis as a sovereign nation to solve ... their problems ... welcome to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel that was present Obama in these last hours ... getting the American people an update on the situation in Iraq ... and what he is willing to do or rather what he will not do their I've got Declarations columnist Peggy Noonan joining me now Katie ... I've that the could fall here to check the status of the president understands the gravity of the situation ... it's interesting it's actually a little hard to tell which is a very un usual thing and present it in the midst of a historic disaster ... and in this is ... this is the correct has been the focus and U S attention ... for about thirteen years and ... that it is looking to beat earnings so very dark great now we fought for my soul and fought to hold that ... Actiq Reid also they have fallen to ... a group of bad guys who wore a new iteration of band guy down it looks like there ... for a new animation of the bad guy came ... of it that the president said something yesterday that struck me is the most frivolous he said frivolous in its ... expression he said ... one of the United States military doesn't exist to do what the mall with these guys you know with whoever pops up ... why the mall ... this is a foreign policy disaster ... it has many fathers but DBS what it is right now getting one ... it raises ... another question about this presidency seems to raise up the straw men when he doesn't ... quite know what to do this morning he also said work were not going to put troops on the ground and people can rely on American troops in every instance when I thought ... it was nobody's talking about stating the American troops on the ground what is that all those kinds of statements ... becoz he's trying to leading in his own mind ... I think ... in any ... in his eighty five psi way of making an argument ... some people want ... the world to be this it's impossible thing the other is one of its impossible thing I want a possible link ... it gets ... its existing genious it's funny I don't think people settlement thinking and disingenuous ... but day by day as they get the straw man arguments I think they can play the second this new holding water leaking from a non easy a feeling ... he said that this that that was a re iteration of an old enemy what does this remind you of the situation in Iraq today ... in parallel ... Opel illycaffè ... oh well I'll tell you what I've been flashing back on for the past two days ... I am remembering how terrible ... we all felt and yet to be a certain age remember this ... but have terrible we all fell ... after ... ten years of grueling and Grissom effort in pain in Vietnam and then seeing it all in ... with ... helicopters and and ... or ... stand South Vietnamese people and then our friends who from them not with us trying desperately to get into the ... into the helicopters them out of their fall of the country ... so I don't mean to be DRI during the rim but I am going to tell us if we see those kind of pictures ... and I kind of reality connected to the fall ... of Baghdad ... then the political ... debate public opinion picture on the United States may turn out to be ... somewhat different from where it is now ... it is very painful for him re nation ... to go through ... what we may be about to go through ... declaration comes again and ... thank you very much thank you ...